Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mehta a "demoniac conductor" who "had it all." Nevertheless, he put Mehta through the usual drills: left hand in his pocket, right sleeve tied to a desk, conducting only with wrist movements of the right hand while Swarowsky sometimes paced behind him, muttering criticisms in three languages to test his concentration...
...year lapse; in 1967 Goodyear tires were on winning cars at the Indianapolis, Le Mans and Grand Prix championship races, all of which cost a cool $5,000,000. DeYoung thinks it was worth it. "The younger generation likes it," says he, "and we get an opportunity to test ourselves against competitors. And hell, I like fast cars...
...Crimson swimmers rest until February 3, when they take on Pennsylvania in the IAB, Penn, however, is even weaker than Columbia, and the next real test for Harvard will not come until February 10 against Dartmouth, when the Crimson has a good chance to avenge last year's 58-37 defeat...
...TIME's editors were preparing this week's cover story on the U.S. public university, our Education Department was putting the final question marks on its 32nd annual Current Affairs Test. Now in the mails to teachers, the test, based on the year's events as related in TIME, will eventually be taken by more than 2,500,000 students...
Computer Talk. He goes back to Descartes to test what he calls "the immaterialist hypothesis," the theory that at some point in man's evolution, a supernatural factor entered and set man forever above lower orders of creation. This hypothesis, once generally held, and still held by orthodox Christians, is now challenged by widespread acceptance of the "materialist hypothesis"-the notion that man is merely a more complicated organism in a hierarchy of natural history extending down to the smallest bacterium...